I have no issue with subsidizing internet for rural people, or even the global poor. That’s the point of taxes - to resolve externalities and encourage economic mobility.
Kind of neat to see Republicans trickling onto this site, ngl. Not great, but neat.
Don’t think the user you are arguing against is a republican based on their comment alone. Is the Lib take that we should let the private sector profit off of space to the point that we end up with Kessler Syndrome?
If I can’t have 50 options for gigabit internet so my tax dollars can line another billionaire’s pockets, then what’s the point?
Republicans historically so not want to use their tax money to provide for the “undeserving” both locally and globally.
If he’s not opposed to his tax dollars being used in such a way, and instead opposes technology advances as a whole, one wonders why he would be in a technology community
I have no issue with subsidizing internet for rural people, or even the global poor. That’s the point of taxes - to resolve externalities and encourage economic mobility.
Kind of neat to see Republicans trickling onto this site, ngl. Not great, but neat.
Don’t think the user you are arguing against is a republican based on their comment alone. Is the Lib take that we should let the private sector profit off of space to the point that we end up with Kessler Syndrome?
If I can’t have 50 options for gigabit internet so my tax dollars can line another billionaire’s pockets, then what’s the point?
Republicans historically so not want to use their tax money to provide for the “undeserving” both locally and globally.
If he’s not opposed to his tax dollars being used in such a way, and instead opposes technology advances as a whole, one wonders why he would be in a technology community
Replace references to space and internet with nature and oil drilling and your arguments sound indistinguishable from republicans.
Yes if you change words in a sentence you can make sentences mean different things. That is indeed how words work.
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